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87M Hosts on the Internet?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-anybody-out-there?--is-anybody-listening? dept.

NTT writes "The Telcordia Internet Sizer provides daily updates on the size of the Internet. The Telcordia solution to quantifying Internet growth statistics is based on an internally developed unique sampling method. In this approach, over 150,000 randomly generated IP addresses are sampled on a daily basis and checked for their existence. Check out the other stats they have here"

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  1. How the hell can it grow? by Red+Moose · · Score: 4

    My sister says she has the internet on her iMac, which has only got a 6 gig HD, so how the hell could it be growing if she's never upgraded?

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